Quotes about Sorrow
Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
- Will Rogers
Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.
- William Faulkner
It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.
- AW Pink
We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.
- John Calvin
Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us
- AW Tozer
Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
- Euripides
It's fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it's not fun to talk about how we got there.
- Todd Burpo
If one's conscience is willing to confess whatever sins have been committed, including the sin of unbelief, it will be sorrowful in a godly way, earnestly desiring the mercy of God.
- Watchman Nee
Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.
- Martin Luther